BEEF TENDON
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Connective tissue - a savoury gelatin
Can be found at dim-sum (yum cha) parlours as well as authentic Chinese restarurants...Not exactly meat & not exactly bone...The tendon is simmered or braised at low heat for a few hours. The soy sauce, rice wine, anise, rock sugar and other seasonings penetrate the tendon... Beef-noodle houses of Taiwan present if p wutg bowls of chewy egg noodles. The slimy, mucilaginous texture" of the tendon may intoxicate or repulse...It is slimy
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